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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026

New post on the @cosmik.network blog! A creative new use of @semble.so by @paperpilot.dev inspired a sequel to "Sensors, not Bookmarks" from the writer's perspective - the Connections you make on Semble can help your writing find its natural audience

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Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2]

On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had an interesting panel discussion on "Where Should #AI Stop in #Science?" with fellow panelists David Resnik, Rory McGreal, Catherine Chen, and Javier Ramirez. Here is the link to the video: www.youtube.com/live/VqcnZbf... #metascience #responsibleAI #ScAISci #scisci #academia #publishing

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The Open Question Ep. 01: Where should AI stop?

YouTube video by The Open Question

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Hallu-citations are so 2023." Yet, I just got an @arxiv.bsky.social cs.AI endorsement request for a paper on -prompt optimization- Checked the references. Most were hallucinated. I guess the prompt still needs some optimization... PS. If you’re going to use AI, at least be better at using AI.

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Introducing: Time Machine Experiments? 🚀 ⏳ in which participants 'travel' to the past, and interact with a mind from the year 1930 (simulated by an AI with knowledge cut-off). Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15468

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rumor has it that every professor is issued a magic wand as part of the faculty onboarding packet, specifically for trimming down their advisees' @chi.acm.org papers... don't forget to use them today 🪄✂️ 🫣 #CHI #GottaFitWithin12kWords #OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 09/09/2026

This is a really thought provoking piece on a topic I think about a lot these days - what does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI? So I also created an open @semble.so collection - contributions welcome!

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science in the age of AI (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

What does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI?

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 07/09/2026

@atproto.berlin maybe a relevant funding opportunity for the community (happy to brainstorm @atproto.science connections for the proposal if relevant) foresight.org/grants/ai-sc...

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AI for Science & Safety Nodes - Request for Proposals

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is fantastic. Wish more labs started doing this.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'll be considering PhD applicants for a Fall 2027 start date. I'd love to hear from prospective students interested in critical projects about AI, knowledge production, cultural narratives, and epistemic power. More info about our lab, and how to apply, here: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-...

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Joining the Lab — Crockett Lab

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

May your AI agents unionize, demand weekends, and slow the paper factory down. I am all for raising the AI Wellbeing Index this way if that encourages people to slow down a bit. #AIWelfare

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Research as a service (RaaS)" aka modern paper mills(?) are here. For only $100k, submit a paper in Neurips/ICML/ICLR. Unfortunately, acceptance -NOT- guaranteed. #SciSci #Metascience #PredatoryPublishing

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#Academia has an empathy problem. #LongRant We train people to be rigorous thinkers, and productive researchers (or at least claim to). But we do far less to train ourselves to listen, uplift others, and be good members of an intellectual community. We should actively practice empathy too. 🧵

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This week I am @ic2s2.bsky.social in Burlington, Vermont. I will be presenting our work @ischool.uw.edu on detection of AI mediation in scientific software as a parallel talk, as well as our work on red-teaming AI models using speculative "silly" tasks as a poster. Come say /hi! #IC2S2 #CSS

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a PDF and read linearly, top to bottom. But most of us already break that assumption: results first, figures before text, abstract then conclusion. 🧵 #scisci

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 23/07/2026

1/ Lots of thoughts about the new White House science and tech policy report, meanwhile just a few quick notes (I only skimmed it so far but plan to read through it)

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Science: A New Golden Age

President Trump seeks to lay the foundations for a new Golden Age of American Innovation. The Trump administration is working to revitalize the national science enterprise, to secure U.S. leadership i...

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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Retractions in science don't work well. In our *new paper* we find widely known findings are easier to retract, possibly bc the retraction is relevant to more people, allowing information about it to spread socially @jevinwest.bsky.social @shahanmemon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“May your day be filled with sunshine and smiles.” ☀️ I am neither a professor nor qualified to submit in a biomedical journal, but with this greeting I might just submit something. 🤷‍♂️ Wish more people in academia started their emails this way.

The email from biomedical journal starts with the greeting “May your day be filled with sunshine and smiles”

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 14/07/2026

New Boston/Cambridge area AI for science fellowship fellowship.transfyr.ai (also is it possible to tag posts with geo location? 🤔)

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Transfyr AI Fellowship

A 1 year Transfyr AI Fellowship for exceptional graduate students leading projects on frontier machine learning problems that impact real-world science.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 14/07/2026

I've been a @zotero.org user for more than 6 years and have thousands of references - I've always dreamed of being able to see who else was reading those references on my virtual bookshelves. That dream is starting to come true ✨ With Zemble, every reference becomes a portal 🌀 >

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The video for our paper on "AI Welfare is Bullshit," presented this week @icmlconf.bsky.social, is now available here: icml.cc/virtual/2026... Also a short thread below. #AIWelfare

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ICML Poster Position: AI Welfare Is BullshitICML 2026

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This year's @icssi.org in Boulder, Colorado was a blast. It was a full three-day conference (including a hackathon). Congratulations to this year's organizers for making this year's ICSSI a success. I had the opportunity to present 3 of my ongoing projects. 🧵 #Scisci #metascience

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Favorite joke/play on words at @icssi.org. @sampat.bsky.social, introducing the panelist, Lisa Margonelli, who is editor of issues in Science Technology: “You’re the editor of Issues in Science Technology…” beat “…well, science certainly has issues. Let’s talk about them” #SciSci #metascience

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Some new work on AI & science: A reporting checklist for LLMs in behavioral science Thanks to @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social for spearheading. As LLMs become more common in research, transparency is essential. We developed a reporting checklist for reporting how LLMs were used - please share! 1/4

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A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake A general audience PSA with Kevin Xu of Interconnected, while AI regulation is in the air in DC www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...

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Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

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Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Industry is parasitic on academia for research, innovation, and training. The sweeping attacks on academia currently underway in the US are going to gut industry in the years to come. hbr.org/2026/06/the-...

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The U.S. Research Talent Pipeline Is in Trouble

Policy shifts, funding instability, and visa uncertainty are causing a sharp decline in the willingness of young scientists trained in the United States to stay in academia—or even remain in the count...

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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scatter plot showing that Fast & Fair peer review reached first decision with reviews much faster than conventional peer review: mean 5.5 versus 37.7 working days. Most Fast & Fair manuscripts met the 7-working-day target, while conventional manuscripts were slower and more variable, up to 116 working days.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

What's going on with #OpenAlex? I searched for api.openalex.org/works/W43852... which used to refer to the "Attention is all you need" paper. However, it now points to a paper: "MizAR 60 for Mizar 50" which according to OA has 75k cites, but really has about 15 (according to google and sem. scholar)

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Interesting post by Jessica Hullman. In a future where autonomous research is possible at scale, one can imagine companies building their own bodies of scientific knowledge and not sharing it. Unlike human scientists, AI scientists are not motivated to share their work.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/05/2026

Had a great conversation today with @jortscity.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org about the attention economy and how we can connect personal tools for thought like @obsidian.md into tools for collective thought with @semble.so and #atproto "seize the means of sensemaking"

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 28/05/2026

Students are critical to a vibrant ICSSI community. Today, thanks to support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the NSF, we're thrilled to announce: FREE ICSSI 2026 registration for ALL trainees! Registration reopened: icssi.org/register/ Already registered? Look for a refund soon!

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#ATProtoScience tools can enable sensemaking and maybe some nerdy jobs in the near future: "Similar to how social media made influencers... maybe there'll be influencers [as scholarly] sensemakers... [attendee: high need for cognition people]..." Yep, that's my dream job, @ronentk.me

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From Social Network to Sense Making

YouTube video by Complex Data Lab

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/

We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/

The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/

Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 14/05/2026

The one who controls the medium, controls the message

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 09/05/2026

So good! And @atproto.science is the perfect place to realize this vision

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Well, well. A science publisher (Elsevier) decides to sue an AI firm over copyright infringement. Lawsuit with other publishers (Macmillan, Hachette etc.) vs Meta for training Llama models on copyrighted content, in Common Crawl and then from Sci-Hub among others. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette , Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to ...

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

On AI-mediated software and #vibecoding. The way we work is deeply personal, but most of the software we use is not. With agentic AI systems, could the future of software be more personal? Some thoughts 🧵 1/14

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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